Thanks,
Kate (also known as Liz)
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It reminds me of advice my dad gave me from his days at the dog track:

“Take your betting tips from the quiet man with a Rolex, not the braggart with worn out shoes”

Great post! I agree with Marianne. I think I may be a Rarity (not for my agreement). I’m the one looking to expand my knowledge. My husband does make six figures in his field of work (not writing, the man couldn’t make a list) which has given me the privilege of staying home.

That being the case, I am free to pursue my passion which is writing. I’ve always been a writer and I’m always wanting to expand my knowledge. Going on the Internet, I’m inundated with “experts”. I want to learn from a person who has paid his dues, and suffered through the madness, not the person who woke up yesterday and is trying their hand at a totally different field and is on Lesson Two of the “Manual”.

Sady, we’re living in an “instant gratification” society. If you can’t make six figures in X amount of days/weeks, it’s not worth my time. And if you you ask me to pay out a small fortune for all the “added bonuses”, “seminars” and ” daily updates” to get me to that end, well, you’re a hack.

My wish is for people like me to Do Their Research! To find those quiet whispers of REAL experts. Progress is falling on your face and doing it again and again til you get it right. Until you know it like the back of your hand. And then do it some more. Success is sure and steady, very rarely is it achieved in six days or less. If you think otherwise, I got this great product/ website/ course for sale….

But that’s just my six figure cents.

I’ve notice it happening when people follow a leader, but forget to remind themselves that this person probably has years of experience building businesses.

However, this fact is often overlooked (especially if they’re “new” online) because the:

“I built a successful business in 3 months”
is more attractive than

“I slaved at several businesses for years, often not knowing what I was doing, including a great deal of hard work and at times, grave self-doubt (and madness). That is the reason why, with my experience of building business from scratch and getting them to a profit after years, and from failing and trying again, I’ve managed to sell out this seminar you’re attending…”

But it’s so easy for people to see their current results and think that the tools they use are going to get them the same results (I’ve seen people feeling awful because they didn’t get their 20,000 subscribers overnight).

The ironic thing is that they’ve usually got talents and expertise that they could turn into a business, but they get distracted by giving “how to build a business” advice instead.

I know some people say you only need to know a little bit more than the next person to be an expert but that makes me uncomfortable.

I’d really like a surgeon to know a whole heap more on the subject than I do, rather than just being 2 steps ahead.

What does everyone else think?

So they go to seminars on the topic, join mastermind groups, think ‘hey I can teach this stuff and be an expert too!’, then they partner up with others and do telesummits touting other self styled experts each promoting each other. The killer part is that, all the while they are still struggling to do the very thing they claim they can teach you to do.

It’s really sad because usually these people are not scam artists, they are nice well meaning people who genuinely want to help others, they are just going about it in a pretty inauthentic (and ineffective) way.

Rant over

Has anyone else noticed this trend?
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